Miss Brenda Sue Fields, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Fields, celebrated her 13th birthday with a party given by her parents at their home on Saffell Avenue on Friday evening. Mrs. Carl E. Wright assisted with the entertainment.

I sure have been enjoying these later nights. I kind of like driving home from work when the sun is still up. Driving at dusk is what I call “deer-thirty,” and I have 16 miles of it. Of course, there are other wildlife showing themselves in droves this time of year, but one is especially distinctive.

The broken blackboard was thrown out years ago, but the lesson Jack Upchurch taught with it continues to live.

“I remember one night we were playing Stanford out here and we were up seven or eight at the half, but had not played well,” Tom Smith remembers with a chuckle. “We were kind of laughing in the locker room and Coach Upchurch walked in.

“He just took his fist and hit the blackboard and said, ‘Boys, that is not how we play basketball.’